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Friends and colleagues — both male and female — warned me that making this speech would harm my career by instantly typecasting me as a female COO and not a real business executive.
朋友和同事（不管男性還是女性）都警告我這次演講會傷及我的事業，因為我立刻會被刻畫為一個“女性首席運營官”，而不是一個真正的企業運營者。
In other words, I wouldn't be blending in.
換句話說，這會讓我成為“異類”。
I worried they might be right. Speaking at TED would be different from my previous keynotes.
我擔心被他們說中了，TED演講的內容肯定和我之前的演講不同。
Although I would be addressing a sympathetic room, the talk would be posted on the web, where anyone could watch, and judge, and criticize.
盡管我面對的觀眾都可能是支持我的，但視頻會傳到網上，全世界每個人都能看到，都能對此進行評判。
Inside Facebook, few people noticed my TEDTalk, and those who did responded positively.
在臉譜網內部，沒什么人注意到我的這次TED演講，那些看了視頻的人回應也都很積極。
But outside of Facebook, the criticism started to roll in.
但在臉譜網以外，批評聲出現了。
One of my colleagues from Treasury called to say that "others" — not him, of course — were wondering why I gave more speeches on women's issues than on Facebook.
過去在財政部的一位同事打電話對我說，“別人”（當然，不是他自己）很好奇我為什么會講女性問題而不是講臉譜網。
I had been at the company for two and a half years and given countless speeches on rebuilding marketing around the social graph and exactly one speech on gender.
事實上我在臉譜網已經工作了兩年半，做過很多次關于根據社交圖譜重建市場的演講，僅僅有一次是講性別問題。
Someone else asked me, "So is this your thing now?"
甚至還有人問我：“你現在準備干這個了？”
At the time, I didn't know how to respond.
當時我不知道該怎么回答，
Now I would say yes. I made this my "thing" because we need to disrupt the status quo.
放在現在我會說：是的，我把“這個”當成我自己的事，因為我們需要改變現狀。
Staying quiet and fitting in may have been all the first generations of women who entered corporate America could do;
默默地承受和適應，也許是前幾代商界女性會做的事，
in some cases, it might still be the safest path.
在某些情況下這的確是最安全的方式，
But this strategy is not paying off for women as a group.
但這種策略對女性群體而言并不值得推廣。
